Sentences with phrase «from pinprick»

I've been catching up on my reading on deep - ocean drilling in trying to assess efforts to stanch what could be a months - long flow of oil from the pinprick in the Gulf of Mexico seafloor.

They grow very quickly, from pinprick size to several inches in diameter within only 30 minutes.

Audience member: The Big Bang started from a pinprick.

«We can perform hundreds of tests, from standard to sophisticated, from a pinprick and tiny sample of blood, and we have performed more than 70 tests from a single tiny sample,» a representative for the company told Tech Insider in April.

Not exact matches

It revealed yesterday that Operation Concord had received «a number of calls from members of the public» concerned about damage, including «possible pinpricks», to infant formula packaging.

Astronomers haven't been able to find the pinprick of light from a glowing orb in the middle of the debris.

But as Clauser knew well from his radio - astronomy work, apertures in the real world are always wider than a mathematical pinprick.

On the front is a black dial pierced by six holes ranging in size from the width of a pencil lead to a mere pinprick.

Each of the 14,370 pinpricks of light in this x-ray image is a hot, young star in the Carina Nebula — a giant cloud of gas and dust some 7500 light - years from Earth where new stars are being born.

If you use that analogy and work your way backward in time from now, you end up imagining everything coming from a point — a pinprick.

According to Graney, Marius concluded that his observations showed that the stars were too close to Earth to satisfy the Copernican world view — which says that the stars lie at a huge distance from Earth, and so would appear as starry pinpricks to any observer.

However, the main downside is that it requires a small pinprick to draw blood from the finger (9).

Day - Lewis traces the arc of his character from remote tyrant to willing slave with a majestic command — his immersion in the role, down to the pinpricks on Woodcock's fingers, is total.

His projects, in various media, include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole; meditations on «the residual space of the American / Vietnam War» (comprising works on the squatting body as counter-architecture, military desertion as askesis, and surfing); a video essay on the site / non-site dialectic instigated by Robert Smithson's reception of Edgar Allan Poe (with a little help from Yvonne Rainer); a reconsideration of Marcel Duchamp's oeuvre as an discourse in ethics (as seen through Étant donnés); and «squatting projects» in various cities (Berlin, New York, Chicago, Vienna, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), where the squatting body, as a heuristic cipher, is conjugated by an interpretation generated by the conditions of each location.

I thank all those from the glittering metropolitan fleshpots of New York and Toronto to imperial pinpricks like the Falklands and the Cook Islands who've helped keep me in the game by swinging by the SteynOnline store or picking up one of our gift certificates.